On April 24, 2019 Bicycle Therapeutics, a biotechnology company pioneering a new class of therapeutics based on its proprietary bicyclic peptide (Bicycle) product platform, reported that Punit Upadhyaya, Ph.D., Senior Scientist at Bicycle, will present at the 6th Annual Peptides Congress in London (Press release, Bicycle Therapeutics, APR 24, 2019, View Source [SID1234535361]). The presentation, entitled "Bicycles as T-cell Modulators: Activation of CD137 Using Multivalent and Tumour-targeted Bicycle Peptides," will take place on Thursday, April 25, at 12:00 BST.

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"Our T-cell targeting Bicycles are set apart from other biological approaches because they are fully synthetic and modular, which is designed to enable the rapid creation of molecules with unique drug-like properties," said Nicholas Keen, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer of Bicycle Therapeutics. "We’re looking forward to sharing research showcasing that our multivalent and tumour-targeted bispecific Bicycles robustly activate CD137 positive T-cells in in vivo disease models as well as in patient-derived material."